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Boying Li (李博莹)

3×3 · top 0.68% of 284,439 all-time · competing since October 2016 · 2016LIBO05

Boying Li (李博莹) has been competing for 10 years. Her best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.29, set at Penang Cube Masters 2023, puts her in the top 0.68% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 253rd in China. Until May 2011, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 50 competitions since October 2016, she has put 2,175 official solves on the record across 14 events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 52% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. Her 3×3 best has come down from 18.53 in October 2016 to 6.29, a 66% improvement. Boying has entered 50 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 0.68% of 284,439 all-time
6.29
signature single · Penang Cube Masters 2023
2,175
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 52% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×36.298.97
top 0.68%253 / 28,153
2×21.743.53
top 3.3%420 / 15,796
Skewb2.695.23
top 3.6%187 / 5,004
Megaminx46.7451.88
top 3.7%81 / 1,678
Pyraminx3.366.58
top 4.9%588 / 10,224
4×435.4138.01
top 7.1%711 / 5,926
5×51:04.321:10.04
top 8.0%383 / 2,816
3×3 one-handed16.4519.64
top 11.3%1,103 / 5,922
Clock8.179.78
top 16.0%344 / 1,843
6×62:20.252:34.27
top 20.7%459 / 1,349
7×74:03.054:29.57
top 31.9%618 / 1,261
Square-122.7128.91
top 34.0%575 / 1,362
3×3 Fewest Moves47 moves—
early days — 3 solves837 / 1,058
3×3 blindfolded7:32.76—
early days — 1 solve1,161 / 1,183

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Asian Championship 2016: 18.53Taiyuan Winter Open 2016: 13.16Taiyuan Open 2017: 15.85China Championship 2017: 12.84Taiyuan Autumn 2017: 11.36Beijing Summer 2018: 9.16China Championship 2018: 10.36Qinhuangdao Winter 2018: 11.42Taiyuan Winter 2018: 10.37Qinhuangdao Open 2019: 8.85Beijing Summer 2019: 9.91Linfen Open 2019: 10.03Tianjin Autumn 2019: 10.42Beijing Winter 2019: 9.79Taiyuan Winter 2019: 8.52Beijing Spring PM 2021: 10.15Tianjin Summer Solstice 2021: 9.07YJ Malaysia Cube Open 2022: 8.97Malaysia Cube Championship 2022: 8.54Indonesia Masters 2023: 8.59Yong Jun KL Speedcubing 2023: 8.51UTM Speedcubing Open 2023: 9.52XMUM Cube Open 2023: 9.24IUKL SOR 2023: 9.24Beaconhouse Malaysia Cube Open 2023: 8.59Penang Cube Masters 2023: 6.29Johor Mini 2023: 8.37Malaysia Cube Championship 2023: 9.41Sunway Velocity Mall Open 2024: 8.84Kuala Lumpur Cubing Challenge 2024: 7.96Malaysia 15th Anniversary Championship 2024: 8.38Warm Up at gateway klia2 2024: 8.35Rubik's WCA Asian Championship 2024: 10.46Cool Down Singapore 2024: 9.63Penang Cube Masters 2024: 7.69Sleepless in Selangor 2025: 9.88XMUM Cube Open 2025: 8.31Malaysia Newcomer 2025: 8.76IUKL Final Solve 2025: 9.25gateway KLIA2 Cube Open 2025: 8.14One Shamelin Cube Open 2025: 8.94Malaysia Cube Championship 2025: 8.00Beijing Winter 2026: 8.34Start of Summer Beijing 2026: 9.56Beijing Autumn Begins 2026: 7.796.2918.531 Oct 201622 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to her.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.29 away.
  • A sub-1 2×2 single — 1,032 people have one; it is 0.74 away.

Targets move as she improves.